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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
Ancient JubiIees.

In connection with the question of
jubileeS, correspondent in London Notes
and Querie,, calls TO mind the first thirty
years jubilee of Amenhetep ILL.,, or, as
written by the Greeks, Amenophis H.,
Pharaoh of Egypt, which occurred in the
thirtieth year of his reign, in or about the
year 1870 Il. G. The King, it is recorded,
sat upon his throne TO receive the list Of
the tributes from the north and south,
according to the taxing of the full Nile at
the festival of the thirtieth year. We find
that Pharaoh did not only receive trib.
utes and gifts, but that he rewarded
those subjects who had faithfully paid
their taxes with necklace, an equivalent
at the present day TO receiving dccora-
tion at the hands Of the sovereign. 1t is
also stated that the people gave more
taxes than they were obliged, and then
departed to their homes, well contented
that the King had shown himself upon
his throne, and the taxpayers of the south
and north had been rewarded. We also
find that Rameses III. celebrated a thirty
years jubilee with great festivities
throughout his dominions His second
Jubilee took place in the thirty fourth
wear, the thi. d in the thirty-seventh year,
and the fourth in the fortieth year of his
reign. Thotmes III. and many other
Egyptian kings had long reigns, but ann
not aware that it is recorded that they
celebrated their thirty years jubilee.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

JoHNNYCAKE.-One cup Of cornmeal,
two cups of -four, one cup of milk, one
half cup each of butter and sugar, three
eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder.
VEAL FRTTTERs. Chop fine two
pounds of veal add half pound of
rolled crackers, three beaten eggs, with
salt and pepper sufficient to season. fry
slowly in hot lard.
FRIED POTATOES. Peel and slice the
potatoes and let stand in cold water one
hour; drain off the water, season with
pepper and salt; add one teaspoontul of
flour and mix well. Fry in hot butter
twenty minutes.
FRIED EGG PLANT.-Peel the egg
plant and cut in slices one-half inch
thick; pepper and salt; lay one slice upon
the other and let them stand ten or
twelve hours; drain off the liquor, dip in
flour and fry brown.
CHOCOLATE JELLY.-Take seven spoon
fuls of grated chocolate, the same of
white sugar, one cup of sweet cream;
mix together and set over the fire and let
come to boil. Pour it over cornstarch
pudding, or put between layers of cake.
OUNCE BREAD.-Allow one apple for
every six ounces. Boil the ounces and
apples in water until they are soft; then
peel them, remove the cores and press the
pulp through a sieve. To every pound
of pulp allow one pound of sugar.
Clarity the sugar and then put in the
pulp, adding little finely grated lemon
peel. Boil until perfectly stiff, stirring
constantly. Then put the mass in molds
or paper cases and dry in cool oven.
The bread must be stiff enough to
cut in slices.
BAKED TURNIPs.- Pare and slice, a
quarter of an inch thick, some new
turnips, and boil until tender in salted
boiling water. Drain them, lay in a pie
dish and pour over them the following
sauce: Stir over the fire one ounce each
of butter and flour until they are per-
fectly smooth add slowly a cup of rich
milk that has been brought to the boiling
point, and season with white pepper and
salt. Sprinkle them with two table
spoonfuls of grated cheese, and over all
dust bread crumbs thickly, and brown in
quick oven.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
Mexican Rolls

In the large tower of Morella hangs
the monster bell, which is rarely sounded,
but there arc many others of moderate
size which are continually Ginning. All
these bells, and indeed nearly all the
bells in the Republic, are remarkable for
sweetness and softness of tone. 1t is
very rarely that one hears a harsh bell
They are exceedingly melodious and
pleasing. 1t is sometimes explained that
this is due to the mixture of silver in the
bell metal, and that the new bells are
cast from old metal. believe that the
chief reason why the Mexican bells are so
much more musical than ours is that
Mexican bells are artistically made,
shaped with reference TO tone, thin at
the edge, each one work of art intel
ligcntly manipulated, not mechanically
cast without reference to the sound it
shall produce The great bells are struck
with clapper, and not swung. There
would be much less objection to the use
of church bells in the United States-the
harsh and barbarous jaugle which shocks
the Sunday stiffness our bells had any
of the musical quality OF the Mexican.
-Hdypcr's Magazine.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
The Bishops Advice.

"And don't keep telling about your
last appointment, says Bishop Fowler,
TO Methodist ministers. ~ knew minis
ter who was always telling how the peo-
pie treated him at Brownsville. II was
Brownsville here and Brownsville there
everything was Brownsville. This
went on until everybody got thoroughly
tired of hearing Brownsville. One night
a good old lady arose in the weekly
prayer-meeting to give in her testimony.
She was a dear, good soul-One Of the
saints on earth. She said she had had a
hard week. My SOUL she said, has
been greatly depressed ali the week. |
find my faith very weak and my hope
very dim. can no longer see my way
10 reaching heaven. may hold out till
| get to Brownsville, but | can't 20 a
step further There was no more heard
Of Brownsville in that charge after that.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
A Great Magician's Tricks.

The late Professor Herman. the ma
gician, was a capital dentist and the
most dextrous and accomplished pick
pocket He would remove a gentleman's
watch, slip ring on the chain and re-
place the watch while engaged in con-
versation. Or he would undertake a hat
trick before he had been five minutes in
a roomful Of people, and would turn out
of it, with the most laughable address,
something belonging to each person pres
ent. He made hundred fortunes-and
lost them, for he was an inveterate and
unfortunate speculator. The prettiest
trick | ever saw, says a London Standard
writer, was done by Hermann while at
lunch with a brother conjuror in the
hotel of MOntevideo. Five people were
seated at the able mot his own be it OBJ
served), and there was apparently an en-
tire absence of any possible preparation.
Taking a pear from the dish he told us
to mark it. One left four punctures from
his fork in it, another dropped a spot Of
ink on the rind; pushed an American
three-ce piece into the soft substance
of the fruit until it was buried next, a
large slice was cut out and eaten. Herr
mann then took il and tossed il toward
the lofty ceiling. ''Catch it yourselves,
he cried, as the pear was whirling in
mid-air. It fell into my outstretched
hand, prongmarked, ink-spotted, and
with the three-cent bit still bcdded in
its tissue-but whole. 90
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

Never comes amiss-A married woman.
-DansyiIe Breeze.
A mans funny bone, we presume, en-
ables him to laugh in his sleeve.-Statcs-
man.
The skeleton in the closet is often in
the shape of long-necked bottle
Judge
The livery horse is not so much of a
charger as the chap that runs the stable.
-Yonkers Gazette.
The population of Chicago is now in
creasing at the rate of 2l, 900 hogs day.
st. Louis Republican.
When you put your fingers into some
body else's pie you must expect to get
tart rejoinders. Burlington Free Press
No man can be called good baseball
player until he can pitch ball that will
curve the umpire. e.-Newman independent.
You can get more wind out of ten
cent fan than you can from $500 one.
It's the same way with a ten-cent man,
Statesman.
The man who's on the ocean
And sea sick in his berth
Amidst the storms commotion,
Is the man who wants the earth.
Boston Courier.
"Save the young men, " says the Somer-
vile Journal All right, but if the
journal has no objections we should pre-
fer to have few young women saved as
well.-FdU Rioer Adeaace.
There was once fair maid in South Vernon,
Who'd a hat with a big bunch of fern on;
The crown stood up straight,
Two pounds was its weight,
With u brim that an engine could turn on.
Harper's Bdzdr.
Mrs. Jones-"I have been making a
change in the household, and you cannot
imagine how relieved l feel. 1t really
seems as if had nothing to do" Mrs.
Brown-"Have you engaged more SER
vants?n Mrs Jones-"No; | have dis
charged them all. Binghamton Repub-
licdH.
Theodore, l don't believe you love
me any more said X street girl, plain
lively, as her best young man, Post
office Department clerk, pulled her past
an ice-cream saloon. "Oh, don't 80
that, deaFesr,n said -reproachfunS.
"Why, named fourteen postoflices after
YOU last week. y WASHINGTON Critic.
An Eastern firm got hold of new
drummer who was very highly recon.
mcnded by some friends of theirs. They
gave him case of samples and $500 and
sent him off. He was gone couple of
weeks, and they heard nothing from him.
They finally got on his track, and tele-
grphed him. His answer was brief and
worthy of his profession. 1t was: "Send
me another $500. l lam still with you.'
-SaR Francisco Chronicle.
Minnesota people have found new
way to test the freshness of eggs Wipe
the large end of an egg, they say, quite
clean, and then touch the tip of the
tongue to the central part of this big
end, If the egg is good there will be a
little warm spot inside the egg which
will be plainly perceptible to the tongue.
This is an Improvement on the Omaha
market plan of holding one ear to the
egg and listening for squeak. Omaha
World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

Food adulteration is by no means con-
fined to this country. Statistics just
published by the Prefecture of the Seine
show that during the year 1886 the Off
cial chemists of Paris ordered-tke de-
struction of 1, 147 articles of food and
prosecuted 1900 persons for adulterat-
tion. 1t is interesting to note how the
NQld struggle between good and evil is
begetting new battles in the field of mod
crn science.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
Useful hints.

Salt sprinkled over anything that is
burning on the stovewill prevent any dis
agreeable odor.
Lard for pastry should be used as hard
as it can be cut with knife. 1t should
be cut through the flour, not rubbed.
Wash valenciennes lace in luke-warm
water with fine soap, and iron over sew
eral thicknesses of flannel to bring out
the pattern.
The surest and most practical way of
not having milk scorched is to scald it in
a double boiler, or a tin that sits in
kettle of boiling water. The wetting of
kettle with cold water and allowing it
to remain few minutes before putting
the milk in will lessen the danger of
scorching the milk,
A pair of boots or shoes thoroughly
soaked are not easy to dry without being
left in an uncomfortably stiff, if not
shrunken condition. A very simple de-
vice will make the drying process com
paratiyely safe. The wet shoes should
be thoroughly stuffed with paper, which
serves not only to keep them in shape,
but hastens their drying by absorbing
the moisture.
A good cleansing mixture may be made
with two ounces liquid ammonia, two
ounces bar soap, finely shaved, and two
teaspoonfuls powdered saltpetre, Put
these ingredients into large, open
mouthed bottle and add J pints warm
water 1t will be ready for use in two
or three days. 1t is well adapted for
washing delicate colored articles, also to
add to the water for shampooing the
head Mixed with water and sprayed
upon plants it will kill any insects in
Testing them, and also act as fertilizer,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

John Willard Young is the youngest
son of the late Brigham Young's first
wife. He is about forty-three years of
age and has ten sons and ten daughters.
He says his father left an estate worth
about 81, 900, 900. He willed S22, 900 to
each of his children, Brigham Young
has as ye. no monument. He lies 3uried
near what was called "the iron house, "
in Salt Lake City, and his family have
not been able to decide on fitting design
70 mark his grave.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
SYMPATHY.

Ishold it gift rare and half divine
This ready feeling for fellows woes
Which from one nature TO another goes
In comprehensive intuition fine;
'Tis said that certain charmed witchhazel
wands
VIII straightway tell Of treasures hidden
fast
In the earth's heart, and softened shadows
cast
Upon the spot, when held in rightful hands;
30 sympathy, rod of tender grace,
When held in loving hearts will gently find
The hidden heights or depths of humankind
And hold their treasures in fond embrace.
But ahl each magic wand to WELD its art
Must holden be in honest hand or heart.
Augusta De Bttbna.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

The Sultan of Turkey is still continu.
ally haunted by the fear of assassination.
and his morbid disposition has of late
been increased by an incident in the
harem which has affected him very
strongly. Abdul Hamid, it appears, had
been attracted by the graces of a young
Circassian girl; but the Prince Selim,
his eldest son, who had the right of
entry into the harem, abducted the fair
young eE;sn, and thus violated the
sacred character of the harem. Since
this occurance Prince Selim has been
placed under arrest. All his tutors have
been changed, and strict surveillance
has been established over every one
entering the palace.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

The myth of the "Great American Des-
ert" has finally disappeared from con-
temporaneous history. Its last refuge
was in the noble Territory of Montana ;
but the rapid development of that region
shows conclusively that there is no desert
there. On the contrary, to use the words
fthe San Francisco Chronicle, "Montana,
enthroned among the mountains like a
queen, beckons the advancing pioneer
and smiles welcome to all who with in
dustry and energy and honest purpose
will demand from her the treasure which
she has hidden in her bosom. The en-,
chanted princess has slept for many a
year, but now the new prince, the hardy
American son of toll, has come to lay his
kiss upon her lips. and bid her waken to
the realization of new life and new
hope.n
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
A Question Answered.

Omaha Man-"Are those pug dogs in
tellgent"
Omaha Lady proud owner of a pug
"Oh, their intelligence is almost human. 1"
II am surprised to hear that -
IL can't begin to tell you how much
the dear little fellows know. Mercy me I!
Jane. Jane! Where are your
Jane "a servant Here, num-"
Run out as fast as you can and bring
the dog in. It's raining. ~ Omaha
World
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

According to some astronomers the
earth, through the suns attraction and
the friction of the tides, is losing time
in other words, revolving more slowly
upon its axis. This, if true, need not,
however, cause any serious dissarrange-
ment of clocks and watches, as the al
legged loss of time is only half second
in century of years. If men would
come up to their engagements as prompt
ly as the earth does, there would be
much less cause of complaint on the
ground of tardiness.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

About million dollars has already
been subscribed to the fund for the erec-
tion of the -million-dollar Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral in New York. John
Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
ID. Willis James gave one hundred thou
sand dollars each. Bishop Potter thinks
that the entire amount asked for will be
subscribed in due time.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
The Worst Fate Of All.

The nihilist, doomed in Siberian waste
To live in his exile gloom,
May possibly think he is fated TO taste
The cup OF bitterest doOml
The slave who works for another's gain,
The captive held by his foe.
The sufferer racked ON his bed OF pain,
And the beggar in want and woe;
The grief of all these men combined,
Can never amount TO the sum
OF the awful grief, condensed, refined,
lid BIZ
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
RArEa on ApvERrlaIMo.
THE ROSE AND THE PEARL

know a thing Of purity,
A flower;
It grows within the heart df me
Each hour.
A heart that blossoms as the rose
Is mine,
Because a fow'ret in it blows,
Divine.
Down in this gladsoBae heart is placed
A pearl:
Fit emblem of an angel-faced
Sweet girl
A precious pearl within my heart
Deep set;
A lovely rose with heavens own dew
Is wet.
What hnllowed joy is mine when DER
My soul,
The perfume of that thought, so pure,
Doth roll
Mail and Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

! "A statement was made to-day" says
the Washington critic, "by gentleman
who was Appointment member of the Con-
federate Congress, to the effect that
there was never any Supreme Court of
the Confederate States. He says a bill
passed the Confederate House providing
for the establishment of such a court,
but when it reached the Senate it was
defeated by Mr.. Yancey of Alabama, who
took the ground that such tribunal was
antagonistic to the confederate idea of
the sovereignty of the several States-to
maintain which principle they had
seeded from the Union. Mr.. Yancey's
views were acquiesced in, but the
necessity for such final arbiter of dis
butes between States came up some time
afterward, when the courts of one State
declared that Confederate bonds could
be taxed for State revenues, and the
courts of another State decided Just the
contrary. The early collapse of the
Confederaey prevented further conflict
ing complications of the State-right doc
trine as advocated by Mr.. Yaneey and
|ofhers.p -
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

The average time of iirst-class steamers
between New York and Queenstown is
about seven days. The fastest record
was made by the Etruria, five days,
twenty-threc hours, the distance covered
being 3, $50 statute miles.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

Jefferson Davis, Simon Cameron, Han
bal Hamlin, and A. p. Kennedy are
said to be the only men living who were
members of the United States Senate
when the war began.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

When the next decennial census is
taken, three years hence, it is computed
that New York city will have a popula-
ton of two millions and Brooklyn of one
tnillion
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17

This country has about 10000, 900
more people than ten years ago, while we
are using more than double the number
of cattle being marketed then.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-16
PLANT FERTILIZATION.
Cause of Exceptional Display OF Color No.
ticeable In Arctic ElOMers.

tlCeHOie Ill ArCtlC flOWerSs
Now, all the world over, mountain
plants, especially those that grow be-
yond the limit of trees, and close up to
the very snow-line, are celebrated for
their exceptional display of vivid color.
Every body must ut least have heard of
the Alpine gentinans, globe-fowers and
datfodils, that belt with blue or gold or
primrose whole zones of mountain-side
in Swiss spring-time. Exactly the same
thing is true of the artistic flowers;
short as is their summer, they make it
beautiful while it lasts, with their pro-
fuse bloom. a hundred times more vivid
and pervasive than any thing to be
seen in those much overpraised and
misrepresented tropics. Even in tenn.
perate Europe and America, every body
must have noticed that, rs we go up the
higher hills, we find their slopes pur ted
with heather or golden with gorse, pink
with mountain-laurel, or crimson with
masses of the wild rhododendron.
Why is this? Simply because among
the uplands, and more especially close
to the snow-line, bees are rare. and the
work of fertilization is mainly left to
the care of butterflies. Now, the bee,
as every body knows, is II steady, regu-
lar, business-like worker; he flies low,
hunts close, never mixes his liquors.
sticks steadily to one kind Of honey
produced by one species on each jour
ney, and looks carefully for his selected
blossom in and out among the tangled
vegetation of meadow or roadside.
Hence the flowers that specially cater
for his peculiar tastes are more remark
able for their exact adaptation to his
size and shape than for any conspicuous
floral display. But the butterfly, on
the other hand, is well known to be a
tickle, fitting, fantastic creature: he
flies high from bunch to bunch of large
and noticeable bright-hued flowers.
Above all other members of the insect
tribe, he is lover of color: big patches
of red or white OF purple are the things
to attract him from distance with
their massive glare, and to draw him
down from his careless flight in the eye
of heaven. Hence butterfly flowers
generally grow in huge trusses, masscd
closely together to reinfolce one an
others effect; and they produce the
finest total displays of any species
known to humanity. On the hill-tops,
and especially close above the limit of
trees, the high-tiying butterflies have
things all their own way. The
plants that affect these chilly
situations, therefore, have before been
compelled to accommodates themselves
to the circumstances, and to trust for
fertilization to the stray attentions of
the casual butterfly. 1t is not without
reason, then, that on the summit of
Mount Washington specialized and
peculiar glacial butterfly should still
accompany the specialized and peculiar
glacial flowers. Allen, IN PoDu-
Tar Science MOnthLU
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-16
The Soil for Potatoes.

Different varieties of potatoes require
different conditions of soil. Some soils
are better adapted for growing potatoes
than Others. We all know that not
only can the appearance of any given
variety be changed by radical change
of soil and conditions, but the quality
also. have yet to find II variety that
will produce tubers of equally good
quality on MI conditions of soil. The
test of earliness depends largely
upon the right selection of soil. The
Early Essex, which believe to be the
earliest kind yet known, needs a light,
warm soil. Heavy soils will generally
produce larger yield, but tho potatoes
will not be 30 smooth and handsome,
and as rule they will be inferior in
table qualities. have found varieties
that invariably do best on heavy land;
they seem to require it, Tho different
varieties of potatoes love to choose
their own conditions OF soil as much as
different varieties of grasses. ~ f.
A'sdross, m Farm and Home,